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QAnon picked your website.
So as soon as a Q post is up,
♪ And the White Knight is talking backwards ♪
that allowed people to just speak their mind
when a man from North Carolina comes up and fires some shots.
(crowd yelling)
and I immediately started following on 4chan.
That people, you know, after we got
We don't believe Q is just one specific person.
and live-streamed himself, sort of like,
looking at about two and a half million views a month.
that it only takes a five-minute YouTube video
I was making fun of people
So I offered to pick Joy up at the airport and bring her over.
I mean, I certainly never had any interaction with Codemonkey.
In 2018, I reached out to him over Twitter.
from this individual who is obviously
into proof Q exists.
that Q was no longer real.
People, I think there's just gonna be this big bust
a mega-conspiracy theory
Sommer: Well, when you, when you start looking into it,
because Corsi was threatening his revenue stream.
'Cause, you know, God's first,
Is there 8-- Isn't there--
Well, I think Q is President Trump.
Sommer: Q moves from 4chan to 8chan
I don't even know what I was saying now.
but it's arguable that Q would have never broken into the mainstream
and want to see me make more.
and everything resonated with me,
Sometimes 10 days would go by without a single message.
and they've been working together all along.
were on the brink of being cured.
Things we think we know about this guy,
would then select the best research
Q left, and went to this board that I had created.
who shares cryptic messages through an online forum
a largely forgotten '90s flick
sometimes they'll even think it's me.
And so, someone who's going through it,
I got five emails this morning.
I'm gonna just be honest, here.
Filmmaker: Like most anons,
8chan is one of many imageboard websites.
and so they won't actually come out
or as the users call them-- and keep everybody engaged.
That's all I felt.
my husband started reading Q posts,
That password would get cryptographically scrambled,
Yo, Q don't reach out to anybody.
So, the reach is there.
To connect whatever dots they may find,
and their global partners
We went in front of the VIP line.
And she was like, "Wow, so he has moved."
Filmmaker: A story of how a website changed the world.
Watkins: Correct. Because every other website banned him.
uh, that, uh, Trump has used for a long time.
Filmmaker: Tell me a little bit about the board change that happened.
I started researching
There was a lot of research.
Filmmaker: From the John Kerry Swift Boat campaign of 2004,
but that doesn't mean that QAnon itself is wrong or fake."
and it's the website that Q calls home.
They move to a board that is then, uh, controlled
I have the Q, if you want to see it.
it was where their whole, like, persona is just, like,
Seriously. "Christians" is in their top ten boards.
everybody to come together.
"This is not a game," "Godfather III,"
"Some creepy stuff in here, guys.
-Filmmaker: To you name it. -Corsi: There's no evidence
Furber: Being a baker is a terrible job.
but they're like, "Wow. This guy's getting a lot of pizza."
interpreted by followers,
in order to understand the underlying motives,
Filmmaker: This is how followers see Q,
He thought it was still the same Q continuing.
Yeah, that's my website.